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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Jake Tapper Unloads on Obama: You're in No Position to Lecture: An irritated Jake Tapper on Tuesday unloaded on Barack Obama, attacking the President for “lecturing” journalists about how to do their job. Highlighting a speech from Monday, in which the Democrat called for reporters to “dig” and “demand more,” Tapper quipped, “His message was a good one. But was President Obama the right messenger?”

Kimmel Mocks Cruz on Obamacare: 'I've Not Heard One Story' That 'It's a Disaster': On Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, the usually-friendly talk-show host had Ted Cruz on as his guest apparently just to mock him and talk down to him. While the interview started out friendly, Kimmel soon made jabs at Cruz for being unlikeable and attacked Cruz’s claims about Obamacare and radical Islam. The talk show host even claimed that he hadn’t heard “one” negative story about Obamacare, proving just how shallow his knowledge of the topic is.

Networks Pounce on Misdemeanor Charge for Trump Aide, Skimp on Covering Clinton Aide's Scandal: In just the last three weeks, ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts have generated nearly 16 minutes of coverage looking at charges of misconduct against Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. That’s more than eight times the coverage than they’ve given over the past eight months to serious questions surrounding top Clinton aide Huma Abedin for her role in a variety of Clinton scandals (less than two minutes).

It would not surprise me if tens of thousands of Democrats are registering as Republicans to vote for Donald Trump in the Pennsylvania primary thinking they are helping Hillary Clinton. They may live to rue the day. Trump may be the first Republican in 30 years to win Pennsylvania in November.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Lawmaker demands FTC probe into Clintons' 'sham charity': A House Republican lawmaker is planning to ask the Federal Trade Commission to take a cue from law enforcement by looking into the Clinton Foundation's nonprofit status, and is calling the foundation a sham charity.
The letter, which is being circulated by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. and which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, asks the FTC to investigate the charitable status of the group, due mainly to the criminal probe announced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in January. That agency is seeking to determine whether public corruption laws were violated when Hillary Clinton worked for the foundation at the same time she served as secretary of state.

The Borking Liberal Media Goes to Work for Merrick Garland: The media campaign to replace the conservative late Justice Antonin Scalia with an Obama appointee has begun. It won’t be pretty. Republicans will be accused in the media -- actually they are already being accused -- of being “obstructionists” and worse in blocking the appointment of Judge Merrick Garland. But how did it get this way with the media, Democrats and Supreme Court nominations in the first place?

Team Obama Sets a Record for Failing on 77 Percent of Freedom of Information Act Requests: The Obama administration – which pledged to be the “most transparent in history” – has turned the Freedom of Information Act into the Freedom to Get Nothing Act. The Associated Press reported on its own investigation of 100 government agencies in 2015: 'People who asked for records under the law received censored files or nothing in 77 percent of requests.'

NBC Reporter Calls Out Obama Hypocrisy on SCOTUS Block:
The media will always be a shill for leftists, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't give credit where credit's due when they do their actual job every now and then. In an interview on NBC Today with co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, White House Chief-of-Staff Dennis McDonough actually got grilled by Guthrie over Obama's hypocrisy for hitting Republicans on backing a SCOTUS nominee when he did the exact same thing to Justice Samuel Alito in 2006.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

D'Souza Worried New Hillary Film Could Earn Him 'Life in Prison':
Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza is concerned that his new documentary film, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, might earn him a prison cell for the rest of his life. This may not bee too far-fetched as D'Souza spent eight months in federal confinement for violating a campaign finance law after his film, 2016: Obama's America. D'Souza recently addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he stated his concern:

Monday, March 14, 2016

Watch SNL's Hillary Clinton Give Up and Just Become Bernie Sanders:
Saturday Night Live continues to lampoon Hillary Clinton with the help of cast member Kate McKinnon, whose take on the dynastic politician is hardly distinguishable from the real thing. In this latest mock ad, SNL's Clinton is hoping to appeal to millennial voters. But instead of just adopting a few lines from opponent Bernie Sanders, Clinton totally gives up and just becomes Sanders himself.

Hollywood Hypocrites Cheer Assault on Free Speech at Chicago Rally, Blames Trump:
Left-wing hypocrisy is breathtaking in its scope and detachment from reality. In the wake of riotous protestors shutting down free speech at a Donald Trump rally in Chicago on Friday, Hollywood celebrities have taken to the airwaves to share their unsolicited two-cents. Predictably, these usual suspects wholeheartedly supported the assault on free speech and placed the blame at Trump's door.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

This just in from Lowman S. Henry, one of Pennsylvania's leading conservative voices ...

The Presidential campaign will come to the Keystone State when U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) addresses the 2016 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. The conference will be held April 1-2, 2016 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill (Harrisburg), PA. Registration for the conference is now open at www.paleadershipconference.org

Also announced as speakers for the conference are Fox News Channel (FNC) senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano,Stephen Moore of Fox News, former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, President of the Heritage Foundation; State Senator Scott Wagner;Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative; Congressman Mike Kelly; John Gizzi of Newsmax and Jeff Lord of the American Spectator and CNN. There will also be four interactive panel presentations and three workshop sessions.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference
is the premiere gathering of public policy conservatives each year in
the Keystone State. It is the largest and longest-running of the
state-based conservative conferences regularly attracting a long list of
conservative elected officials, scholars, journalists and activists for
two days of speeches, panel presentations, workshops and networking.

In addition to Senator Cruz, invitations to speak to the 2016 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference have
been extended to the remaining candidates for the Republican
Presidential nomination: Mr. Donald Trump, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and
Ohio Governor John Kasich.

In
2012, Ted Cruz was elected as the 34th U.S. Senator from Texas. A
passionate fighter for limited government, economic growth, and the
Constitution, Ted won a decisive victory in both the Republican primary
and the general election, despite having never before been elected to
office.

Before
being elected to the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz received national acclaim as
the Solicitor General of Texas, the State's chief lawyer before the
U.S. Supreme Court. Serving under Attorney General Greg Abbott, Ted was
the nation's youngest Solicitor General, the longest serving Solicitor
General in Texas, and the first Hispanic Solicitor General of Texas.

In
private practice in Houston, Ted spent five years as a partner at one
of the nation's largest law firms, where he led the firm's U.S. Supreme
Court and national Appellate Litigation practice.

Ted
has authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral
arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court. During Ted's
service as Solicitor General, Texas achieved an unprecedented series of
landmark national victories.

Prior
to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the Director of the Office
of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy
Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Domestic
Policy Advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

Ted
graduated with honors from Princeton University and with high honors
from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice
William Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the first Hispanic
ever to clerk for the Chief Justice of the United States.

Ted and his wife, Heidi, live in his hometown of Houston, Texas, with their two young daughters, Caroline and Catherine.

The 2016 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will feature four interactive panel presentations including Tax, Borrow & Spend: How Wolf's Agenda Harms Pennsylvanians and Enriches Unions; Restoring the American Dream; All Politics Are Local; and Litigating for Liberty. There will be three workshop sessions including: Going Viral: Make Social Media Work for You; Faith of Our Founding Fathers; and Campaigning Like It's 2015, Not 1999.

Crack Dealer Freed Early Under Obama Plan Murders Woman, 2 Kids: A convicted crack dealer who left prison early as part of the Obama administration’s mass release of federal inmates has been indicted by a grand jury for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her two kids in Columbus, Ohio. The gory crime drew national attention because the children, ages 7 and 10, were murdered to eliminate...

Monday, March 07, 2016

Looking for further evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder? Let's check in with CNN ...

Sally Kohn: Trump Will Institute Internment Camps a-la Nazi Germany:
I get it -- outrageous statements do wonders for a particular program or pundit's ratings -- but Sally Kohn's latest hyperbolic rant is an example of what we need less of, not more of, on both sides of the political fence if we wish to reverse the dumbing-down of society.

Friday, March 04, 2016

Hillary Clinton Broke These Four Laws Over Private Email, Says Former AG:
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey is pretty sure that Hillary Clinton has broken four specific laws for using a private email server that contained classified information. He broke them down on Thursday's Morning Joe on MSNBC. One of those laws states that 'you can't put classified information in an unclassified setting.' This is the one, he added, 'that General Petraeus was convicted of on his own plea.' He continued:

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Four hours of liberal millionaires kissing each other's asses for movies nobody went to see didn't attract the viewership Hollywood expected on Sunday ...

Academy Awards Hit Lowest Ratings Since 2008: The Nielsen Company reported on Monday that the Academy Awards broadcast hit its lowest level of viewership since 2008. The show suffered a net loss of 3 million viewers from the broadcast in 2015: 'preliminary estimates showed 34.3 million people watched Sunday night's telecast, where 'Spotlight' won best picture. Last year's show was seen by 37.3 million people.' And it gets worse.

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Tony A. Phyrillas is a leading conservative columnist, commentator and blogger based in Pennsylvania.
A veteran newspaperman with 33 years experience as a reporter, editor, photographer and columnist, Phyrillas received a first place award in 2010 for best column from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors and a first place award in 2007 for Best Opinion Column from Suburban Newspapers of America. He was recognized for column writing in 2007 by the Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone Chapter and in 2006 by the SPJ Greater Philadelphia Chapter.
Phyrillas is ranked among the most influential political bloggers in Pennsylvania by BlogNetNews.com.
Odyssey: The World of Greece magazine named Phyrillas one of the leading Greek-American bloggers in the world.
A Penn State University graduate, Phyrillas is the editor/content manager of The Mercury, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper in Pottstown, Pa.
Phyrillas made frequent appearances on talk radio and as a panelist on the "Journalists Roundtable" program on the Pennsylvania Cable Network.
He co-hosted a weekly radio program on WPAZ 1370 AM for 2 years.